Tag: personal information

The collection and use of personal information in private estates and gated communities in South Africa is common. Visitors are often required to provide personal information to security companies like full names, contact number, vehicle registration and, with the development of technology, vehicle licence and ID or driving licence details are also required.

Bank hackers, email phishing scams and identity theft are synonymous with fraud in the financial sector. According to a statement by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), more than R 800 million were lost over the last couple of years in South Africa due to fraud.

POPIA, the Protection of Personal Information Act, is to come into full effect this year, on 1 April 2020.

Anyone who has worked in marketing for more than a decade will agree that we’ve entered a Golden Age of information. We know more about our consumers, their transactions, preferences, spending habits, income and demographics than ever before, freely surrendered by the consumers themselves as they shop, bank and socialise online.

Over the past five years, Black Friday and Cyber Monday has become big business in South Africa. And we are not talking about standing in insanely long queues for toilet paper; while South Africa has not embraced the same type of discounts that the US does when Black Friday officially opens the festive shopping season, South Africans are always up for a deal and want to be first in line to take advantage of this.

Recruitment scams are becoming a horrible and worrying trend in South Africa. One of South Africa’s fastest growing recruitment agencies has recently been hit by a recruitment scam. We would like to raise an alarm to job seekers that there is someone that is using their company name to scam job seekers.

We urge you to be your money’s best protection by following these guidelines:

With the enforcement of PoPI on the horizon (the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013), South African business owners and leaders need to re-examine the way that they handle and process data.

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC ) would like to remind bank clients to always be on the lookout for Phishing, Vishing and SMishing scams. Phishing, Vishing and SMishing are all methods of deceitfully obtaining personal information such as passwords, ID numbers and bank card details by tricking clients into believing that they are from trusted sources, such as banks or legitimate companies.

For any country, it is important that Government has systems in place. For every person, the state needs to know, amongst other things, name,...